ABSTRACT
This chapter describes stereological methods for inference about a population of particles of very general shape.
Classical methods usually required that all particles in the population have a common, simple, known shape such as a sphere or cube. While this was perfectly appropriate for some applications (e.g. in materials science), it was a severe limitation in other applications, such as biological science. Cells in a cell population have different, complex shapes, which are not directly observable in a plane section.
